Balyktykol (; ) is a

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in Shortandy District,

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: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 pages. ISBN 9965-893-64-0 (T.Z.), ISBN 9965-893-19-5 The lake is located to the west of Shortandy, the district capital. Kamyshenka village lies by the northwestern shore

Geography

Balyktykol is an oval lake located on a slightly hilly plain roughly sloping to the north. Three intermittent watercourses flow into the lake from the west, southwest and the southeast. Approximately every three years —provided there is sufficient precipitation— Balyktykol becomes

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and drains through a roughly wide riverbed at the northern end. Its waters reach the left bank of the

Kalkutan The Kalkutan () or Koluton () is a river of the Akmola Region, Kazakhstan. It has a length of and the size of its basin is .''Nature of Kazakhstan Encyclopedia'' / General editor. B. O. Jacob. - Almaty: "Kazakh Encyclopedia" LLP, 2011. T.Z. - 304 ...

river, that flows to the north. The lake lies about to the northeast of the

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, of which the Kalkutan is a tributary. The water of Balyktykol is fresh. The lake freezes in November and thaws by April. The ice thickness reaches between and in severe winters, but usually it is to thick in average winters. Among the lakes in its vicinity, Taldykol lies to the northwest, and Alakol to the SSW.

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Flora and fauna

About two thirds of the catchment area of the lake are agricultural fields, the remaining area has

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vegetation. There is a continuous to wide strip along the lakeshore in which reeds predominate. Further offshore there are submerged aquatic plants covering about 20% of the lake surface. There are fish living in the lake.P. P. Filonets,T. R. Omarov; ''Lakes of Northern, Western and Eastern Kazakhstan.'' GUGMS - under the Council of Ministers of the USSR , KazNIGMI , SG AN

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. - Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1974. - p. 29.

References

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(in Russian) {{Lakes of Kazakhstan Lakes of Akmola Region